My new grocery store has a fancy-ish cheese department, and every Saturday they feature an exotic-to-Utah cheese. However, they keep pushing pickles as part of the samples they're handing out. Cracker/cheese/pickle. Is pickle the fashionable choice with cheese tastings these days? It doesn't seem fair to the cheese.
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Connie Neil - Dec 05, 2016 8:41:27 am PST #3315 of 30002
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Jesse - Dec 05, 2016 8:51:25 am PST #3316 of 30002
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Cheese and pickle is a classic combination! I agree with you that I probably wouldn't do it if I were trying to push a fancy cheese, though.
meara - Dec 05, 2016 8:55:51 am PST #3317 of 30002
Pizza gunman is just awful. It's ridiculous but if people are picketing and bringing guns how can you run your business and keep profitable?? Even if people support you, I can't think I'd feel safe bringing my kids or going there knowing people are crazy and planning to bust the place up! Ugh. This world man
Connie Neil - Dec 05, 2016 9:22:29 am PST #3318 of 30002
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Cheese and pickle is a classic combination!
I'd be a horrible food judge. I sympathize very much with the bakers on GBBO who get told their food is too simple. "Simple this, Paul Hollywood!"
sarameg - Dec 05, 2016 9:22:59 am PST #3319 of 30002
Jesse, that's awful. I'm sorry,
Steph L. - Dec 05, 2016 9:27:49 am PST #3320 of 30002
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Cheese and pickle is a classic combination!
I'd be a horrible food judge.
I guess if you like pickles, it's a good thing? (I don't care for pickles, except sweet pickles in tuna salad, so I wouldn't waste valuable cheese-eating stomach room on pickles, when I could just have more cheese.)
Laura - Dec 05, 2016 9:37:08 am PST #3321 of 30002
Our wings are not tired.
I am pro pickles in general, but if I were cheese tasting I wouldn't want it influenced by pickle.
Connie Neil - Dec 05, 2016 9:50:29 am PST #3322 of 30002
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I can definitely see some particular pickles going very well with specific cheeses, but if you're selling me on the benefits of $12 a pound cheese, let it speak for itself. (That French cheese two weeks ago is going on my regular buy list, but last week's cheese was bitter and salty and was not enhanced by the cinnamon-sugar whole wheat cracker it was served on.)
Jessica - Dec 05, 2016 9:54:05 am PST #3323 of 30002
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The acidity helps to cut the fatty mouthfeel, which lets you eat more cheese. MOAR PICKLES PLEEZ. (Though if it's a fancy cheese, maybe they should be cornichons?)
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 05, 2016 10:03:43 am PST #3324 of 30002
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I think I prefer olives or figs with cheese. Unless also paired with a hamburger.